Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Outstanding issues around the death of Bin Laden

Satisfaction and scenes of jubilation that followed the announcement of the death of the leader of al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden, killed Sunday in Pakistan by American special services have been replaced, Monday, May 2, to the number of questions, doubts and shadows. The elimination of bin Laden Why do Americans have killed Osama bin Laden instead of capture? This question has agitated the minds of all on Monday.

The U.S. special forces have thus "not a prisoner" during the operation which saw the death of bin Laden and five members of his family and his entourage. By early evening, the White House has assured that the commando was ready to capture Osama bin Laden alive. Statements that contradict those of U.S.

officials who said in mid-day, the U.S. military had orders to kill him. The identity of the body after the announcement of the death of bin Laden, who was shot in the head, suspicions about the identity of the body have grown. While a false picture of the corpse circulated on the Internet, users questioned instead on the evidence available to assure Americans that they killed the leader of al-Qaida.

DNA analysis confirmed "almost one hundred percent" death of Osama bin Laden, announced several senior U.S. officials, without specifying when and how tests were conducted. The comparison by an expert from the CIA to the body with pictures of old photographs has also "identified with eighty-five percent certainty" its identity, they say.

According to CNN, the U.S. government does not yet know if and when it will broadcast the pictures of the body to confirm his statements. Disposal of dead Americans, fearing a burial of the head of al-Qaeda from becoming a shrine or place of recruitment, chose to bury his body at sea The official reason, however, questioned this choice and the speed with which the body has disappeared.

Muslim organizations such as the Great Mosque of Paris and the Sunni al-Azhar institute, Cairo, immediately condemned non-Muslims who respect the rites want the body to be buried in the direction of Mecca. The U.S. says the contrary have respected the tradition that a funeral be held within twenty-four hours after death.

It would place on the deck of U.S. aircraft carrier on which the body was taken, said a senior defense official. Cooperation with Pakistan The presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a city two hours drive from Islamabad, fosters doubt about the reality of Pakistan's fight against Al Qaeda.

The U.S. president, Barack Obama paid tribute to Pakistan's help and said he called his counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari. But Washington seems to have gone it alone during this operation. The Americans did not prevent Pakistan from the operation and justify the violation of its sovereignty by "legal and moral obligation to act." Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan president, countered the BBC that the operation should have been conducted by the Pakistani army: "Foreign troops should not enter our land.

I do not expect the reactions of joy Pakistani people for their sovereignty has been violated. " In fact, on Monday, several hundred demonstrators opposed to the United States gathered in Pakistan. At night, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States has said that Islamabad would launch a "full investigation" on the failures of its intelligence services in their hunt for Osama bin Laden.

"It is clear that bin Laden had a support network. The question is whether this network was in government, the state of Pakistan or the Pakistani society," said Hussain Haqqani Channel CNN. The risk of retaliation Al-Qaeda and its splinter groups going to radicalize their actions after the death of their leader? Opinions are divided on this issue.

The CIA director, Leon Panetta, said he was "almost certain that terrorists will try to avenge" Osama bin Laden. Similarly, the coordinator of counterterrorism for the European Union, Gilles de Kerchove, said it must "remain vigilant": "In Europe or the United States, increased security is necessary." The fate of the four French hostages held in the Sahel Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) could suffer the death of Osama bin Laden, say experts and sources close to the situation in the region.

The fate of two journalists held in Afghanistan would be him, less sensitive, depending on their captors, and not Taliban Al-Qaeda. Le Monde. en

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